Nisreen Al-khawaldeh; Bassil Mashaqba; Sami Al-Khawaldeh; Anas Al Huneety; Naji AlQbailat
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The study examines the linguistic and rhetorical devices used to express irony in Jordanian Arabic on social media. By analyzing a corpus of 67 ironic posts, the study identifies various forms of ironic expressions: pictorial texts, texts with emojis, and text only presented in Jordanian Arabic, Arabized ...
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The study examines the linguistic and rhetorical devices used to express irony in Jordanian Arabic on social media. By analyzing a corpus of 67 ironic posts, the study identifies various forms of ironic expressions: pictorial texts, texts with emojis, and text only presented in Jordanian Arabic, Arabized words, Standard Arabic, or a mixture of them. The study reveals that irony is a complex phenomenon on social networking sites expressed through various linguistic and rhetorical devices, including sarcasm, jocularity, hyperbole, understatement, and rhetorical questions. The use of irony serves different purposes, such as conveying effective persuasive and evaluation messages that leave a deeper impact on the addressee’s mind. It is a vital means of constructive criticism to criticize foolishness and corruption in both individuals and society. The study shows that irony is a universal and culturally specific technique, demonstrating distinctive cultural inherited features and in-group solidarity. It provides invaluable insights into the figurative usage of language, with theoretical and practical implications.
Othman Khalid Al-Shboul; Nisreen Naji Al-Khawaldeh; Hady J. Hamdan; Naji Alqbailat
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This study analyzes Biden’s political speech on raising governmental funds as a macro speech act which instantiates the speaker’s purpose behind this discourse. It draws insights from some pragmatics and discourse analysis theories, developed by Austin, Searle, and Van Dijk, as a point of ...
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This study analyzes Biden’s political speech on raising governmental funds as a macro speech act which instantiates the speaker’s purpose behind this discourse. It draws insights from some pragmatics and discourse analysis theories, developed by Austin, Searle, and Van Dijk, as a point of departure to develop an analytical framework with two levels (micro and macro levels) to analyze this political discourse. Despite a great deal of research conducted on speech acts from a pragmatic perspective, very few studies examined speech acts existing in a connected manner (a sequence of speech acts) in political discourse. This study bridges pragmatics and discourse analysis claiming that directives complement expressives, assertives, and commissives. This complementary between these classes built the speaker’s authoritative, affective, persuasive, responsible, and supportive identity that enables him to present his perspective effectively and appealingly. These acts blend into this discourse to form a macro speech act. This macro act represents the intended speaker’s purpose behind this discourse.